Etudes Germaniques N° 275, 3/2014 - F. Schiller, Novalis, Rilke, Mallarmé, J. Roth - Traduction Et Politique Culturelle

Daniel DROIXHELe théâtre allemand dans les limbes de la reconnaissance La chronique du Journal encyclopédique, du Hanswurst à Klopstock (1756-1762)The study follows the various stages through which the Journal encyclopédique records the claims and reforms having allowed the XVIIIth century German theatre to shake off the «?great barbary?» weighing on the traditional style of Haupt- und Staatsaktion and popular theatre. The first reviews bring out a brilliant Vienna stage mainly devoted to opera and danse, with an attempt by F.W. Weiskern to upgrade them. The care for a «?Germanizing?» of the repertoire highlights the Swedish model. A Lettre sur le théâtre allemand describes in 1756 the great poverty of the German theatre, due to its practical organization as well as to a pervasive presence of the pantaloon Hanswurst. The sanitation brought by Gottsched and Karoline Neuber, primarily under the influence of the French theater, is emphasized. But the Journal encyclopédique, two years late